Patna Blasts: What was it -
Response, Revenge Or.
By Aiman
Reyaz, New Age Islam, Patna
The recent
serial bomb attacks in Patna highlight the ideology-driven actions that led to
a first of its kind series of blasts in the capital of Bihar, Patna.
What led to
these 12 men to plant bombs in the heart of the city to cause maximum damage.
The main intention was to kill, especially women and children via stampede but
fortunately these handful of radicalised Muslim terrorists were unable to
connect the wires properly which did not lead to the result they desired. And
the BJP officials, who had organised the occasion for a speech by Gujarat Chief
Minister and BJP's prime ministerial hopeful, Mr. Narendra Modi,
thankfully, led the crowd to believe that it was the fire crackers that were
creating so much noise and that people should maintain calm.
The Patna
blasts, like many other blasts in recent times across the world have been done
as a certain ideologically driven action that has “promised rewards”. These
rewards are to be given, or so they have been trained to think like this, in
the next life and these are: to be called a shaheed (martyr), and a martyr who
dies for the sake of Islam will get 70 full-bosomed virgins, besides getting
wine, milk, honey and whatever the hearts will desire.
Types and
Hypes
There are
two types of people who do these things: first are those who are totally committed
into believing that their belief system alone is the Truth (mind you it should
be ‘the Truth’ and not just ‘truth’). They will never indulge in introspection
into what their beliefs are. Since childhood they have been told things like:
‘Islam is the best religion’, ‘Islam is the Truth and time will prove that’,
‘non-Muslims will go to hell’, ‘do dawah because it opens the keys of heaven’
etc.
These are
the people like Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ahmed Abdi Godane etc. A
sub-category of Muslims under this is that of people like Dr Zakir Naik, Ahmed
Deedat, Sheikh Muhammad Abdul Jabbar etc. They fall under this sub-category
because although they do not endorse killings, yet their version of Islam is
individualistic, divisive and to say the least, not at all inclusive.
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